PTT
Services
A primary corporate objective, to which Telhouse is devoting substantial
resources, is the implementation of fully developed telecommunications
agreements with international foreign PTTs. This allows the exchange
of telecommunications traffic between the U.S. and the PTT as well
as those countries with which the PTT has bilateral agreements. Such
agreements enable the foreign PTT to significantly add to its revenues
without capital or operational expenditures as Telhouse would be financially
responsible for the expenses necessitated by equipment upgrades and
the hiring and training of local engineers.
An example of a form the proposed Telhouse/PTT arrangement may take
is a termination agreement. Calls originating in the U.S. would
pass from a local site to a termination point or gateway switch
in the foreign country. After transit, the international call moves
to a switch at the overseas PTT destination site, and is then routed
to the desired internal termination point. Under the terms of the
termination agreement, Telhouse compensates the foreign PTT for terminating
calls on a per minute basis—reconciling the account on a periodic
basis. Another form which a Telhouse/PTT arrangement may take is
a bilateral agreement, whereby the two parties both send and receive
telecommunications traffic at an agreed upon volume. However, since
more traffic will move from the U.S. to the foreign PTT, Telhouse
would pay a periodic settlement fee to the PTT for handling surplus
minutes of international traffic. A Telhouse/PTT agreement may also
take the form of a transit arrangement under whose terms Telhouse
may terminate telephone traffic into nearby regional countries through
the foreign PTT with whom the PTT has a bilateral agreement. In
general, countries in one region have bilateral agreements with
other nearby countries whereby they receive and terminate traffic
at aggressive rates. Telhouse can also terminate traffic, at a very
low cost, to countries where a PTT does not have a direct agreement
by implementing a refiling arrangement. Such an arrangement enables
traffic originating in one country to be re-filed through Telhouse
to another country at an aggressive cost.
A Telhouse/PTT agreement can also benefit a foreign partner in the
management of surplus and negative traffic. In cases where a country
sends more traffic minutes to another country than it receives,
it must pay a periodic settlement fee. With Telhouse’s involvement,
however, surplus traffic and resulting settlement costs can be minimized
or even eliminated for its PTT partner by implementing these strategies:
- By terminating its traffic with the help of Telhouse, a foreign
PTT can greatly reduce the minutes it typically sends to other
countries, with simultaneous reductions in dispersed settlement
fees.
- Telhouse can also terminate a foreign PTT’s traffic at
lower cost than the foreign PTT pays to other carriers.
- Creative application of certain aspects of a transit foreign
arrangement can readily generate new profits for its PTT partner.
- A foreign PTT can also receive settlement fees from any given
country for the extra minutes sent, thereby extracting added income
from the system.
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